Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Intellectual property management
Reexamination Certificate
2008-01-11
2010-11-23
Ouellette, Jonathan (Department: 3629)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Intellectual property management
C705S001100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07840498
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to methods and systems for determining whether to market an intellectual property asset, where the intellectual property asset is based at least in part on an innovation developed for an internal need. In an embodiment, a description of an intellectual property asset is received, and an assessment of the marketability of the intellectual property asset is generated based at least in part on the description of an intellectual property asset and a marketing criterion.
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Examiner In
Beckham Carol T.
Bishop Michael
Frank Scott M.
McLendon Martin
Meadows Vernon
AT&T Intellectual Property I L.P.
Hope Baldauff Hartman LLC
Ouellette Jonathan
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